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What is LIS?
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LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?

2018 Winter Data Release
Five new datasets from Russia and United Kingdom have been added to the LIS database as well as one dataset from Canada to LWS

Collaboration with the AFD – data from Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam
As a result of a research agreement signed between LIS and AFD, data from Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam have been acquired by LIS

ERF-LIS conference: Inequality trends around the Mediterranean
ERF and LIS have joined forces in order to exploit the richness of the microdata offered by both institutions

13th International Conference of the AFD “Inequality and Social Cohesion”
Opening session of the scientific day of the 13th International Conference of the AFD dedicated to presentations of LIS scholars